Abstract
This chapter chronicles the founding history of the ESRF, the first collaborative synchrotron radiation facility in Europe. The ESRF originated under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, but quickly escalated into a matter of high politics and intergovernmental negotiations, mainly between France, West Germany and the United Kingdom. This chapter particularly highlights how the founding history of the ESRF project closely links to the strong role of the French-German tandem in both European integration and collaborative Big Science in Europe in the 1980s.
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